Ask the Buddhas – And Other Messages from the Mineral Kingdom

 

This is one of the most unusual encounters that I’ve ever had with the mineral kingdom, and it has yielded an uncommon insight. None of my crystals was stepping forward to say: “It’s my turn!” and I got quite confused by the situation. Finally, I just asked: “How come no one is stepping forward this month?” and I heard all my crystals say in unison: “Because you’re talking to all of us!”

“What does that mean,” I asked, “talking to all of us?”

“That’s what we mean … all of us. You’re speaking to all of us at once as a collective entity.”

“I don’t know what that means?” I said, because I was getting quite perplexed.

“You must ask the Buddhas,” sang the choir of crystal voices.

“The Buddhas?”

“Yes, the Buddhas. Tell them the story of the Buddhas, that’s what you’re supposed to do … tell the story of the Buddhas.” Aha! At last the penny dropped. So, now I’m going to tell you the story of the Buddhas, as directed by the mineral kingdom. Here’s what happened:

We are very keen gardeners and we like to decorate our yard with statuary, but we’ve found that white is the best color for us – because it stands out best. We also particularly like Buddha statuary, but we find it hard to find white Buddhas.

Every year we take a winter vacation on Sanibel Island in Florida and to our delight, we discovered that they actually sell white Buddha statuary at the garden center in Sanibel. This year, they had added to their inventory and we were able to get not one, but two Buddhas. This was right at the beginning of our trip, and then without even discussing it, we just sort of agreed to keep the statues in the car, because that’s what seemed to make sense … so there we were on Sanibel Island driving around with two nice-sized Buddhas in our car … and it seemed like quite a good idea at the time.

What we didn’t factor into our thinking, was how these two Buddhas in our car were going to affect us – why would we? Without prior experience, there was no reason to think of this as anything other than an expedient decision – we wouldn’t carry them into our little cottage only to carry them back out again. I certainly didn’t expect the profound alteration in my thinking that turned out to be the consequence.

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